T H U R S D A Y . O C T . 26. 1950
SO UTHERN OREGON
N E W S R E V IE W
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FIRST A ID to th,
A IL IN G H O U S E
by ROGER C WHITMAN
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“ The White Church’* is the title of the above painting by
Grandma Moses which will appear this year on Christmas cards.
The tiny New York state farm woman has becom e America s
m ost famed painter.
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PLANTER
Fireside Chat Proposed
ECRETARY of State Acheson
has been urging President Tru
man to deliver a fireside chat warn
ing the nation against falling for the
Russian peace offensive.
Acheson fears that victory in Ko
rea will lull Americans into for
getting that western Europe is still
Russia’s No. 1 objective and that
to let down now would prove dis
astrous later. Therefore, he has sug
gested the President give a blunt
talk to the people, perhaps on Co
lumbus Day. and In this way ex
plode Moscow’s peace talk.
Acheson wants the President to
point out that Russia still has 75
divisions in eastern Germany—15
of them armored—and is now stock
piling huge quantities of food and
raw materials—something you do
only when you are preparing for
war.
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LIFE BEGINS AT 90
Senate Poet Laureate
'G r a n d m a ' M oses S till P ain ts
A n d T a k e s M a n y H o no rs L ig h tly
Grandma Moses is no more ruffled by the honors that have foUowed
her 90th birthday, and the opening of the newest exhibit of her painti g ,
than she was by her first public exhibit just 10 years'
She is back at her white farmhouse here in Eagle Bridge. N. Y..
vigorously brushing the bright colors onto the canvases that have made
her famous, unperturbed by the attention accorded her by Gov. Thomas
Dewey and other dignitaries. Her
daily routine hasn't changed, she
said.
“I get up about seven and go
down for coffee. Then I go to my
room, tidy it up and paint or read
as I see fit,” she explained.
Grandma, who is formally Anna
Mary Robertson Moses, a York-
state farm wife who has become the
dean of American primitive paint
ers, was honored with a testimonial
dinner at the state capital, opened
an exhibit of 60 of her paintings at
the Albany Institute of Art, com
pleted an appearance in a full-scale
color movie, and checked the prog
“ The Mailman Has Gone" is
ress of 60 of her works on exhibit the title of this recent painting
through Europe, all within the last by Grandma M oses. It. too, will
appear on Christmas cards this
few months.
year.
Meteoric Rise to Fame
She still paints nearly every day.
“I've always thought every paint
ing would be the last, but I keep
right on.” she remarked.
The little old lady whose “dis
covery” as a painter started
her on a meteoric rise to fame
at the age of 78, lives in a two-
story white frame house set here
in the rolling hills of the Taconic
range 200 miles from New York
City. She lives with her daugh
ter-in-law, Mrs. Dorothy Moses,
and a granddaughter. It's a
p l e a s a n t , but unpretentious
house built in the late 18th cen
tury with a spacious kitchen, a
dining room big enough to ac
commodate 20 Christmas-dinner
guests, and two front living
rooms whose walls are hung
w it h Grandma's remarkable
paintings.
There is also a television set now
which is obviously of keen interest
to Grandma. "I don’t care for the
boxing or wrestling or those things,’
she said with a twinkle, “but 1 like
the historical things and the plays
if they wind up happy.”
It would be hard to imagine
Grandma Moses unhappy. There is
dignity and intelligence in her face
and complete serenity. She is tiny
and weighs hardly enough to jiggle
a scale. Her eyes are bright blue,
alert and crinkly, and she wears
spectacles. Her white hair is gath
ered in a knot atop her head. She
has high cheek bones, a small,
straight nose, and a decisive chin.
Question:
We ore lining to
.uive our new home plastered,
und 1 would like to know If thia
Integral coloring mixed In with
the plaster is a good thing to have
done.
Answer: Yes, I consider It a
very good way to get color on
your walls without having to do a
separate painting Job afterwards.
To be sure of a uniform color use
only the factory-m ixed m aterial.
Color m ixing of plaster “ on the
job” is not always satisfactory.
Scott Lucas, the hard-boiled sen
ate leader, is one thing; but Scott
Lucas, the rhymester, is another.
Most people don’t know that when
the senator from Illinois gets fed up
with long, drawn-out senate debates
he scribbles lyrics. Here is one he
turned out when the senate was
tied up in a table-thumping debate
on oil:
“Who is this old man oil
That raises hell in committee
toil?
Open the door and let him in.
Hear him speak straight from
the chin.
Smith. Wayne. Me.; Kenneth H. Smith. Long Beach. Calif.; Virgil L. Ward. Lenoir
Lived in Virginia
On her painting, well—“I paint
things that I see and some that I
remember,” she said, “a great deal
is historical and a great deal is just
imagination.”
Her canvases a r e panoramic
views of the countryside, the marks
of the four seasons, the chores and
activities of farmlife, rural holiday
customs she observes or recalls in
her mind’s eye.
Grandma may have Inherited
from her Scotch-Irish forebears
some of her artistic inclination
but her style, taste and crafts
manship are strictly her own
developments. Born on a farm
near Greenwich, N. Y., on Sept.
7, 1860, she remembers that her
father painted a little. Shut in
by illness one winter, he spent
the time painting murals with
house paint on the living room
walls.
She has a vivid and remarkable
memory for the scenes and events
Her first exhibit, prior to 1940,
was in a drug store in Hoosick
Falls, a nearby village, where an
art collector happened on her work
and brought it to the attention of
Dr. Otto Kallir of the Galerie St.
Etienne in New York. Dr. Kallir
staged her first public exhibit and
has fostered her progress ever
since.
Nearly 100 exhibits have followed
in galleries and museums in scores
of cities here and abroad.
Untaught, uneducated, with
little understanding of her own
great gift, Grandma Moses is
unquestionably a true and
probably even a great artist,
in the opinion of Dr. Kallir:
“I think maybe the answer to the
Grandma Moses riddle lies in a
combination of things—her prodi
gious native talent, her fantastic
ability constantly to learn more
about paint technique at an age
when other people regard it as a
miracle to be alive at all, and, more
than anything, a purity of spirit so
great as to be incapable of vul-
garity.
“It is this last trait which en-
ables her to keep turning out scores
of pictures of the most banal sub-
jects ------- and have each one emerge
a distillation of the joys of nature
and the simple life.”
90-Year-O ld Artist Continues Career
W hile most people ore hoppy just to be olive when they
reoch their 90th birthday, Grandma Moses has launched upon a
more active career with her painting. She has a number of works
underway and continues to read and sew.
She said recently at a birthday party she was looking forward to
her 100th birthday. She wasn't planning anything big, she said,
"just to ask a few people over for a dance.
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Business As Usual
In addition to paying 62 per cent
more for zinc, the army and navy
had to get tough before they could
even buy enough zinc for batteries
urgently needed in Korea. Assistant
Secretary of the Arrrty Alexander
and Assistant Secretary of the Navy
Koehler personally had to put pres
sure on the zinc companies in order
to get military orders filled.
Believe it or not, these companies
—Anaconda, Sullivan Mining, Amer- I
ican Smelting and Refining, and
American Zinc company of Illi
nois—wanted to take care of their
civilian clients first rather than risk
losing business. Now the same com
panies are protesting against sup
plying zinc for the nation’s strategic
stockpile.
The basic commodities used
in the manufacture of military
items were the first to sky
rocket after Korea. Crude rub
ber shot up 162 per cent, with
some British companies charg
ing as high as 300 per cent above
I the pre-Korean price. The price
of wool, so essential for the
freezing Korean winter, in
I
creased 61 per cent. Cotton for
summer uniforms shot up 50 per
cent. Steel scrap, which sold for
$24 a ton before the Korean war,
now costs $38 per ton.
Here are a few other comparisons
between the prices the armed for
ces paid before and after the Ko
rean war began: radio receivers
up from $550 to $910 a set; radiak
training sets, $84.90 to $289; ship
ping boxes, 82 cents to $1.24 each;
five-gallon gasoline drums, $1.79 to
' $1.98 each; khaki trousers, 74 cents
to 84 cents a pair; adhesive tape,
! 26 cents to 30 cents a roll; tires,
$16.14 to $20.46 each; fire hose,
$20.64 to $23.10 per 50 feet; ground
Interrogator, $1,842 to $2,303 each.
These are typical of the prices
the armed services are paying.
l e a f 4 0 to
B ro th I lim e , 11« . k i l l i n g
lice and feather n iite t.w h ile
c h ic k e n , perch . O n e ounce
t r e a t , f>0 fe e t o f r o c t a
- 9 0 c h ic k e n ,. D ire c tio n s
0 n p .n k .1 g e A ,k for Itlac k
l e a l 40. the dep e n d ab le
In ,e co cid e o f m an y utee.
y.
Korean Costs Increase
Most people don’t realise that the
cost of the Korean war to the tax
payers has been increased by about
five billion dollars, because of two
factors: 1. Unpatriotic war manu
facturers and raw-material dealers
have hiked prices; 2. President Tru
of her early life. She recalled de man, though given ample power by
tails of Thanksgivings spent in 1864, congress, has failed to invoke price
1868. and 1870. In 1868, her mother’s controls.
As a result, it now costs the
sister.
"Aunt Sophie,” s p e n t
Thanksgiving with them. Names, armed services more for their
places and dates from a half cen (needs, without exception, than they
tury or more ago come readily to paid before the Korean outbreak.
¡Probably the most shameful is the
her.
She lived on the farm near Green sudden increase in the price of
wich until at 28 she married Thomas medical and surgical goods, urgent
Solomon Moses, a neighboring farm ly needed to save lives in Korea.
er. The young couple started for The army must now pay $220 for
North Carolina but got only to an instrument and medicine cabi
Staunton, Va., where they lived for net that cost only $195 before the
nearly 20 years. In 1905, they re Korean war. The price of glycerin,
turned to Washington county and a medical compound in demand in
moved into the house where she military hospitals, has shot up 114
per cent. Even rubber surgical
still lives.
Grandma had no artistic training, gloves for operating on wounded
never took a painting lesson in her soldiers have increased in price
life. She began making needlework from 17 to 22 cents per pair.
The high-octane aviation fuel that
pictures in 1937, at the suggestion
of her daughter, and shortly after keeps our planes flying over Korea
ward was encouraged to take up a costs 30 per cent more than before
paint brush. Her first paintings were the war. At the same time, fuel
oil has shot up 54 per cent. The air
done on wood.
“Anyone can paint if they want,” force is also paying as high as 175
per cent more for resistors, actua
she said thoughtfully. “All they
tors and other electronic spares for
need to do is get a brush and start
aircraft, and the navy is paying 10
painting. They’ll make something.
to 12 per cent more for ship parts
And as time goes on it will get bet
than these same items cost before
ter and better.”
K-day.
lt l.u k
t o a i t t w it h h a n d y C a p
Milton G. K itch en s. Sandy Springs. Okla.
“ Remember boys—he’s a wily
old cuss.
He looks like ’Hit’ and acts like
•Muss’;
He’s a traveler of world renown,
Gushing and running from town
to town.”
Self Trained Artist
A p p ly
M ASTER SE R G EA N TS R EC E IV E B A T T L E F IE L D COMMISSIONS
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U nited S tates arm y receiv e battle front co m m issio n s a s second lieutenants som ew h ere In K rea . • « ‘
right, front row : Patrick J. Stonew all. S tan ley. N. D.; Clifford D H am rick. C olum bus. G a .. < «rUa » •
E ie ll, Portland. O re.; Paul G tiznicsak. C arn egie. Pa.; and John K. Stoilln. Mora, J*1'"’' s *‘<
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LOVES EASY RELIEF
FROM CONSTIPATION!
RED SNIPER AT WRONG END OF GUN . . P.F.C. John Alliance of
Ohio is taking care that this Red Korean doesn’t get away. The
private s prize is a North Korean sniper whom he flushed as United
States forces recaptured Seoul. John tied the prisoner's hands and
stuck him into the hole as he wailed for a prisoner collection detail
to come and get the defeated enemy soldier. Occurrences such as
this were common as Americans continued mopping-up operations.
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NIP PRINCE’S TUTOR . . . Miss
Esther B. Rhoads, Germantown,
Pa., will be the new tutor of Crown
Prince Akihito of Japan, who is 17.
Miss Rhoads will, succeed Mrs.
Vining, who will return to the
United States In November.
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“ Till recently I had to depend on un
pleasant medicines for constipation.
Never thought I would solve thia
problem. Then started eating toasty
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tivel” Mrs. E. Kaup-
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MANY NEVER
SUSPECT CAUSE
OF BACKACHES
ALL'S CALM NOW . . . White-clad North Koreans with their hands
placed atop their heads, march In orderly file under the alert guard
of the United States marines following a quick but hectic fight some
where In Korea The photo was made from overhead, showing that a
tranquil and calm terrain now spreads toward the horizon where
lately lay a flaming battleground. Most of the action in South Korea, at
the time this was taken, consisted of finding troop pockets.
WRITER SIGNS FOR TV . . . W.
Somerset Maugham (left) talks
over his new television program
with his sponsor, Martin Strauss,
hair dye manufacturer. Maugham
will act as host-commcntator on
weekly half-hour dramatizations.
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